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Barbara Ceptus is an educator, activist and dancer from Boston, MA who received her B.A. in Clinical Psychology and American Studies from Tufts University and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at the University of California-Davis. She has worked as a Public Educator and Co-Facilitator with the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center in which she led workshops for schools and community organizations about the issues of rape and sexual harassment. Since the age of three, Barbara has studied Modern dance, Haitian dance and West African dance. She performs the West African/Haitian dance piece in SOARS entitled “Re Birth.” | |
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| Kera Washington has been performing and teaching music using Boston as her base for fourteen years. She currently resides in Providence, RI, and is a doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology at Brown University. She is a multi-instrumentalist, but her first love is percussion, which she found while studying ethnomusicology at Wellesley College and Wesleyan University. She studies with master drummers from Ghana, Haiti, Brazil, and Uganda, and has traveled to Haiti, Cuba and Brazil to advance her studies. She is on faculty at Wellesley College; has taught at MIT and Northeastern University; was Music Teacher for 4 years at St. Peter School in Cambridge; teaches percussion at Derby Academy and privately; and has presented music residencies in the Boston Public Schools and surrounding areas through Arts In Progress. She performs the West African/Haitian music in the SOARS dance entitled “Re Birth.” |  |
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